
Constellation Route
Matthew Olzmann(Author)
ALICE JAMES BOOKS (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-948579-23-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American society: the environment, race, love, grief, friendship, violence, and spirituality. The book is largely a metaphysical tribute to both the Post Office and the act of letter writing as a way to understand and create meaningful connections with the world at large. A collection of mostly epistolary poems and odd poems about post offices"--
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948579-23-0 (9781948579230)
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Matthew Olzmann is the author of three collections of poems from Alice James Books: Mezzanines, which was selected for the Kundiman Prize, Contradictions in the Design, and Constellation Route. His writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Brevity and elsewhere. He's been awarded fellowships from the Kresge Arts Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the MacDowell Colony. Currently, he teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.